Background

Mr. Richard L. Thomas is an Executive Limited Partner and Advisor at Pfingsten Partners, L.L.C. He is also a Managing General Partner at IMC Phosphates Co. Mr. Thomas was the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board at The First National Bank of Chicago from January 1, 1992 to December 1, 1995. He joined The First National Bank of Chicago in 1958. There, Mr. Thomas opened and managed its first international branch in London in 1965 and was named ... a Senior Vice President and General Manager of the holding company, the First Chicago Corp., when it was formed in 1969 and was promoted to an Executive Vice President in 1972. Mr. Thomas served as the President at First Chicago Corp. from May 1974 to November 1993 and at the Bank from 1975 to November 1993. He also served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at First Chicago Corp. since January 1992. Mr. Thomas was the President at The Bankers Roundtable, the Association of Reserve City Bankers, and the Association of Bank Holding Companies; the Economic Club of Chicago; the advisory committee of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, and the Glenwood School for Boys. He has been a Director at Sara Lee Corp. since 1976 and also serves as its Presiding Director. Mr. Thomas has been a Director at Mosaic Global Holdings Inc., since June 1996 and Outsourcing Solutions Inc. since January 2000. He served as a Director of Commonwealth Edison Company since November 28, 2005. He is also a Director at Exelon Corporation and a Member of its Compensation Committee since October 20, 2000. He serves as a Director at CNA Financial Corporation, The SABRE Group Holdings Inc. Mr. Thomas is Member of the Audit Committee at IMC Phosphates MP Inc. He is also the Chairman of the Civic Committee at The Commercial Club of Chicago. Mr. Thomas is a Trustee at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center (Chicago) and Kenyon College and a Life Trustee at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Northwestern University. He served as the Chairman at First Chicago NBD Corp., from 1995 to May 1996. Mr. Thomas was a Director at PMI Group Inc., from July 1996 to May 2006. Mr. Thomas served as an Independent Director, Member of Audit Committee, Member of Compensation Committee, Member of Executive Committee and Member of Governance & Nominating Committee at Sabre Holdings Corporation since November 1996. He also served as a Director at First Chicago Corp. since April 13, 1973; First Chicago NBD Corp. since December 1995; Scotsman Industries Inc. since August 1997; Unicom Corp. and ComEd since July 31, 1998; and The First National Bank of Chicago. Mr. Thomas was a member of the Economic Club of Chicago; the advisory committee of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, and the Glenwood School for Boys; and a member of the Committee for Economic Development. After studying as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen in 1954, he joined Inland Steel Company's management training program but was called to military duty the following year. Mr. Thomas was named a George F. Baker Scholar while earning a Master of Business Administration degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He also received a Bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.

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